The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 29 I'm just playing with the blacksmith, I have no real feelings!

Punting, blacksmithing, and grinding tofu are called three kinds of hard work.While beating the red-hot iron piece with a sledgehammer, Song Yingkui couldn't help complaining about himself.What a time traveler, he actually did two of the three kinds of hard work.If it weren't for the lack of water transportation in the northwest frontier, maybe he would do the hard work of punting himself?Traveling for others is to enjoy, while traveling by yourself is simply to suffer.

"Shopkeeper Guo, the assistant I hired is not bad for you, right? Not only is he good at carpentry, but you can see that the blacksmith's work is no worse than the big blacksmith in the county shop. To be honest, if I didn't have friendship with him, such a craftsman would not be casually hired as an assistant, and he might not be able to hire someone to be the master craftsman!"

When Song Yingkui was swinging the hammer, Carpenter Qin accompanied Guo Kaifeng, the big Jiafang, to inspect the work and credit him.Although the water mill has not been repaired yet, Carpenter Qin feels that he can show the technical level of his construction team to Party A's father now!

But if you look for the construction team in Yuyuan County, you can't find a master craftsman who can do both carpentry and blacksmithing.In terms of the shape and color of the iron pieces that Song Yingkui made, as well as the level of sophistication with which he forged the iron, it is hard not to convince people that this is an old-fashioned way in the blacksmith's trade.

Carpenter Qin was silently surprised while bragging about Song Yingkui's craftsmanship with his master.This little guy is really not just talking nonsense.Why did the more I looked at it, the more I felt that he was more dedicated and handy in blacksmithing than carpentry?In the future, this kid won't really jump out of the carpenter's business and go to eat blacksmith's work, right?

If this is the case, our carpenter shop in Yuyuan County will lose talents, and I feel a little pain in my heart.

"Song's baby, working as a blacksmith is as tiring as a cow. You have to take care of yourself. In terms of craftsmanship, our carpenter is worth a lot of money. No matter how small you are, he will always deal with our carpenter for the rest of his life. Blacksmiths are different. A kitchen knife can be used for a lifetime. It looks like a single piece. It’s expensive, but in fact it doesn’t make much money. When you’re working, don’t put too much emphasis on it. Men are afraid of entering the wrong profession and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man. You have to take care of yourself.” Carpenter talents were drained, and Carpenter Qin couldn't help but order Song Yingkui when he was having dinner.

"Uncle, I know what's in my heart! Knowing the importance, isn't this just thinking about multiple crafts and eating more? As for the blacksmith's job, I'm just playing for fun." In front of the old carpenter, naturally, I can't say good things about other trades.While eating, Song Yingkui casually dealt with Carpenter Qin.

As for the direction in which I will focus my energy in the future, Carpenter Qin can't see.However, the profession of blacksmithing is indeed tiring, and just hitting a piece of iron can exhaust a person half to death.The key is that the tools are not strong enough, shaping can only be done by casting and hammering, finishing without even a hacksaw, files and whetstones are the only tools that can be counted on.It should have been technical work, but now it is purely physical work.It doesn't work if you have little strength, just a handful of strength is not enough, you have to be able to use strength.

Like my third uncle, he couldn't get the idea with a sledgehammer. Asking him to help with the blacksmith work, not only didn't help much, but he was almost hit with a few hammers.

Fortunately, Guo's mill didn't use many iron parts. Song Yingkui's principle was that if wood parts could be used instead, it was best to use wood parts.The money his family spent was for the carpenter, so there was no need to waste such effort.Of course, when it is really necessary, iron parts are still used.

In the process of making iron pieces, Song Yingkui also improved the tools used within his ability.For example, I got a hand grinder and a hand blower. These two things are of great help to improve efficiency!
Carpenter Qin saw the hand-operated blade blower when checking the progress of the water mill.Interested in this new thing. "Don't tell me, this kind of bellows is indeed more powerful than the bellows. Why didn't you make this thing on the construction site of the tomb?" Carpenter Qin commented after shaking two blowers.

"This kind of blower is not durable and is easy to break. When I was building the mausoleum, I was afraid that the things I made would be broken in three days, so I didn't do it! Here, I can make anything that can support the completion of the work. The main purpose is to make the wind strong and save effort." If the key connection of the hand-operated blade blower does not use iron parts, it will wear out after a few days of pure wood grinding.What Song Yingkui is doing now is indeed making use of it, and he will make this thing seriously in the future.

"If you say that, the air box is indeed durable. Tell me, is there a way to make this thing better?" As an old carpenter, it is not difficult to see the shortcomings of pure wood hand blowers.However, Carpenter Qin is still very interested in the practicality of this thing.So he wanted to discuss whether this thing could be improved in terms of craftsmanship to make it truly practical.

"The method is simple, and the parts that are easy to wear are made of iron, and it can be used for a long time." Of course, if some places are made into bearing connections, it will be more useful!It's just that bearings are very difficult to make, and there's no need to explain it too clearly to a layman like Carpenter Qin, as long as he knows something about it.

"Iron is indeed more wear-resistant than wood, but there are few people who can do both wood and iron work like you. This thing is not easy to make!" Seeing that iron parts are needed to make the hand blower practical, Carpenter Qin couldn't help shaking his head.

"There's no need to know how to do blacksmith work! You just need to make specifications for the iron parts used. When a carpenter makes a blower, he buys ready-made iron parts and inlays them. Just like when making a cart, don't the iron parts used are ready-made iron parts bought from a blacksmith shop? If Uncle Qin wants to make blowers in the future, after I return home and open a blacksmith shop, you can just get the ready-made ones from me!" Song Yingkui couldn't help but tell his next plan.

In the past few days, after thinking over and over again, he felt that after the Guo family's water mill was built, it was necessary and promising for him to go home and open a workshop for iron and wood work.Opening a workshop, as long as you don't care much about the location, you can make money by relying on the wages you earn from the Guo family!

"Your baby is still planning to get into the blacksmith's business? Why don't you listen to advice! Blacksmithing is really hard to do. With your woodworking skills, it's not difficult to earn a fortune. I really can't get into that business." When Carpenter Qin heard that Song Yingkui was going to open a blacksmith's shop, he couldn't help being anxious. He followed what he said to him a few days ago, but it didn't work at all?
"It's not that I have to go to the blacksmith's shop. I'm thinking of opening a shop that does both carpentry and blacksmithing. The main thing I do is carpentry. The blacksmithing is to do it by hand without delaying the craftsmanship. It's mainly the things we need to use in our woodwork. We don't do pure iron work like kitchen knives." Seeing that the old man was in a hurry, Song Yingkui quickly coaxed the old man with half truth and half lie.To be honest, he did blacksmith work to turn to the mechanical industry, and he didn't have much interest in purely practical ironware.In this era, machinery cannot be separated from iron and wood, and it is impossible to completely abandon woodwork.

(End of this chapter)